Posted on 02/22/2015 1:21:18 PM PST by Borges
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky, whose series on the "West Memphis Three" cast doubt on the murder convictions of three Arkansas teenagers, catalyzing a movement that led to their release, died Saturday, longtime collaborator Joe Berlinger said.
The Emmy-award winning documentary director died in his sleep of complications from diabetes, Berlinger said. He was 58.
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RIP.
Amazing commentary on our vaunted justice system, that there are lots of people prosecuted and or in jail who didn’t do the crimes.
(Norfolk Four, Memphis Three, Duke Lacrosse Three, and many, many more.)
What happened to the idea that innocent people couldn’t be convicted in our system?
And as noted, Sinofsky started back when there was only 16mm film, but he had a passion for justice and he helped the innocent.
Everyone reading this has a computer; and there is plenty of software around (plus cell phones) to enable literally everyone here to make there own documentary (even if it is only 10 minutes on YouTube).
Get busy.
Help change the world; you have the best medium in the world to do so.
No new trial? Pressuring a governor to release someone from jail? Exoneration is not the same as a finding of "Not Guilty".
RIP. I really enjoyed “Some Kind of Monster.”
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